Been on a real 80s pop kick lately, so I looked through all my boxed up LPs and grabbed anything that fit the bill (and realized I'm missing a certain Loverboy LP and don't yet have Simply Red's debut, though I know I've seen it before and passed it up):

Tears for Fears - Songs from the Big Chair (truly a classic)
Battered Wives - S/T (great early 80s pop punk - Lovers Balls is a hilarious and raunchy track)
Men at Work - Business as Usual (I know Thanksgiving is passed, but I'm thankful that I've never had to eat a vegemite sandwich)
Misfits - S/T Compilation from the late 80s (great stuff; I heard Skulls again recently in a youtube video so had to throw this on again)
Led Zeppelin - In Through the Out Door
Rick Astley - Hold Me In Your Arms
Michael Bolton - Soul Provider
David Bowie - Fame and Fashion (compilation)

Been on a real 80s pop kick lately, so I looked through all my boxed up LPs and grabbed anything that fit the bill (and realized I'm missing a certain Loverboy LP and don't yet have Simply Red's debut, though I know I've seen it before and passed it up):

Tears for Fears - Songs from the Big Chair (truly a classic)
Battered Wives - S/T (great early 80s pop punk - Lovers Balls is a hilarious and raunchy track)
Men at Work - Business as Usual (I know Thanksgiving is passed, but I'm thankful that I've never had to eat a vegemite sandwich)
Misfits - S/T Compilation from the late 80s (great stuff; I heard Skulls again recently in a youtube video so had to throw this on again)
Led Zeppelin - In Through the Out Door
Rick Astley - Hold Me In Your Arms
Michael Bolton - Soul Provider
David Bowie - Fame and Fashion (compilation)

Nice playlist. I'm curious, do you have Tears For Fears debut "The Hurting?" That's one of my favorites from the '80s and I prefer it to "Songs From The Big Chair." Both great records.

I have that Battered Wives LP, bought new as a Canadian import on red vinyl in 1978 IIRC. I suspect they were more popular in Canada, as I've never seen any copies other than the one I own. I am spinning this record right now.

Earlier today I was playing a stack of customer-provided 45s from the late '50s, transferring them to WAV files and CD-R. Lots of great tunes by Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly, Dion & The Belmonts, Jerry Lee Lewis, Ritchie Valens, etc... A fun part of my job.

Been on a real 80s pop kick lately, so I looked through all my boxed up LPs and grabbed anything that fit the bill (and realized I'm missing a certain Loverboy LP and don't yet have Simply Red's debut, though I know I've seen it before and passed it up):

Tears for Fears - Songs from the Big Chair (truly a classic)
Battered Wives - S/T (great early 80s pop punk - Lovers Balls is a hilarious and raunchy track)
Men at Work - Business as Usual (I know Thanksgiving is passed, but I'm thankful that I've never had to eat a vegemite sandwich)
Misfits - S/T Compilation from the late 80s (great stuff; I heard Skulls again recently in a youtube video so had to throw this on again)
Led Zeppelin - In Through the Out Door
Rick Astley - Hold Me In Your Arms
Michael Bolton - Soul Provider
David Bowie - Fame and Fashion (compilation)

Nice playlist. I'm curious, do you have Tears For Fears debut "The Hurting?" That's one of my favorites from the '80s and I prefer it to "Songs From The Big Chair." Both great records.

I have that Battered Wives LP, bought new as a Canadian import on red vinyl in 1978 IIRC. I suspect they were more popular in Canada, as I've never seen any copies other than the one I own. I am spinning this record right now.

I do have "The Hurting", the only other LP I have by them. Nowadays it's fairly famous for the original version of "Mad World" which Gary Jules covered and whose cover was used for a Gears of War (video game) commercial. I'll throw it on again to see how it holds up against their sophomore effort.

I don't think Battered Wives were very popular. I've heard of the red vinyl version thanks to discogs but I haven't seen it myself; my copy is regular old black vinyl. I did see a fellow vinyl enthusiast advertise that he had it in a collection of punk vinyl he shared on reddit, but haven't seen it around otherwise. I think this was the second time I've spun it and was pleasantly surprised at it, I probably didn't give it as much of a chance the first time around since it was boxed up when I found it.

Currently spinning:

Dixon House Band - Fighting Alone (one of the few decent finds on my recent Salvation Army trip(it was on the same label as the excellent "New England" band and a google search yielded that it might be somewhat proggy so I took a chance, despite it being a bit moldy on the cover. Decent so far)

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Great funk bass/heavy guitar work-out from the early 80's.

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Post subject:Posted: Dec 26, 2013 - 05:16 PM

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I'm not a huge fan of Christmas music but in the lead up to the holidays I played Nat King Cole's "The Christmas Song" (probably my only must play) and I found Boyz II Men's "Christmas Interpretations" on CD which I played more than a few times, mainly for the awesome track "Let It Snow"

Stan Getz/Charlie Byrd - Jazz Samba
Elton Motello - Victim of Time

PS Dave - the last time I was at the thrift I found another copy of the Battered Wives LP, and whattaya know, it was the red vinyl version, so I had to add it to the collection.

_________________I didn't want to book the Germs at first.They can't play
their instruments; they just throw food all over. They would
do an excruciating version of "Sugar Sugar" by the Archies and pour sugar all over the audience.